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Six Missing Medieval Pages Discovered in Brighton Archive

By Drooid · Sep 17, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC · How we work

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Sussex and Cambridge scholars discovered six missing pages of a medieval Catholic manuscript.
The pages were found in Brighton’s The Keep archive, listed with the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1929.
Researchers matched the pages to Nicholas Love’s Mirror Of Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ at Yale University.
Only 65 copies of Love’s early 15th-century text survive, making the pages a rare addition.

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Story summary

Sussex and Cambridge scholars discovered six missing pages of a medieval Catholic manuscript.
The pages were found in Brighton’s The Keep archive, listed with the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1929.
Researchers matched the pages to Nicholas Love’s Mirror Of Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ at Yale University.
Only 65 copies of Love’s early 15th-century text survive, making the pages a rare addition.